[plug] boot from stick

[Kev]

There's also a nice little app called usb-creator (I think) which will 
do the same thing.  It comes bundled in Ubuntu, but is available 
separately I believe.

Cheers
Kev


Lucas van Staden wrote:
> WolfBite wrote:
>> skip the cd
>> get a usb
>> leave the iso stored somewhere then
>> http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
>>
>
> Very nice. Thanks for that.
>
> -Lucas
>
>>
>> hardly burn a iso any more (but do as backup)
>>
>> This will only work from a comp that will let you do a usb boot
>> else use smartbootmanager to startup then boot from usb
>>
>> --- On *Mon, 11/1/10, orm /<ormg1 at bigpond.com>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>>     From: orm <ormg1 at bigpond.com>
>>     Subject: [plug] boot from stick
>>     To: "plug at plug" <plug at plug.org.au>
>>     Received: Monday, 11 January, 2010, 11:13 PM
>>
>>     Wading my way through the plethora of info i fetched Re: bigpond
>>     next G - that may teach me not to ask you blokes for info; you
>>     asked for it, now you have it! - but here i am again with more
>>     inane requests.
>>
>>     The CD i have is short on space to burn LinuxMint-8. Can i extract
>>     Mint-8 to a USB stick, then boot from the stick instead of from a 
>> CD?
>>
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